Broken Rules is a game development studio based in Vienna, Austria.
The studio was founded in 2009 by Felix,
Jan and
Peter in 2009.
They created the prototype of And Yet It Moves during their studies at the
university and released it as a full game in the same year they founded the company.
The founding team grew in 2010 when
Clemens and
Martin joined.
Together, we developed
Chasing Aurora and
Secrets of Raetikon.

Our games focus on originality, simplicity, refined game mechanics and rich interactivity.
Games are cultural achievements. We seek to make our games new and meaningful experiences.

Since 2014, we have been porting other games to different plattforms, such as
Guacamelee STCE and
Blek.

Felix {t} is mostly responsible for game design and management.
He's the only team member who has a master title in Game Design.
Felix keeps the vision of the company and embodies our independent spirit the most.
He's our CEO and a level 80 game design wizard.

Martin {t} handles business development
and the marketing side of Broken Rules, as well as being the lead architect of level editor GinkEd. He is a twitter addict and
doctor of computer sciences.
He's our chief pragmatist though he has a past as a new media artist.
Currently he is working in Denmark at the Culture and Games Group at IT University Copenhagen.

Peter {t} is the technical lead and CFO. Peter loves physics and raw playfulness - in games and in sports.
Peter is a ++coder and the king of templates. He's a combines the skills of a builder and
an architect of destruction in one person.

Clemens {t} is creative director, art director and lead artist.
He gets to wear all these titles mainly because he's the ONLY artist.
He does everything from game-, level-, interface- and web-design to character animation, level decoration, effects, concept art, video editing and game logic scripting.
Currently he is working on QUADCORE, a local multiplayer game for a dedicated game cabinet.

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